Posted on 12/20/2020 5:11:29 PM PST by xomething
(CNN)In one of Attorney General William Barr's final acts leading the Justice Department, he plans to announce on Monday criminal charges against an alleged bombmaker in the terrorist bombing of Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988.
The former Libyan intelligence officer Abu Agila Masud is expected to be charged for his involvement in the bombing, according to three officials familiar briefed on the matter.
Monday is the 32nd anniversary of the attack, which killed 270 people, the majority of whom were Americans. The Pan Am Boeing 747 was en route from London to New York.
The announcement also brings Barr's service as attorney general -- a position he's held twice -- full circle.
Libyan leader Moammar Ghadafi later accepted Libya's responsibility for the bombing.
But because of difficulty bringing them to the US, the men were tried instead by a Scottish court sitting in neutral Netherlands.
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Ancient history my boomer friends.
I lost a friend who was on that flight. Brilliant man. RIP, brother.
The Pan Am bombing? So there is hope that in 30 years the FBI might get around to prosecuting election fraud
The young lady I mentioned attended Syracuse...was doing the semester abroad.
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